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Print-On-Demand edition with B&W matte finish non-glossy images. A PILGRIMAGE OF CHURCHES is one person's answer to the landscape of the Great Plains, flowing from Canada to the Coastal Plains of Texas, and the people who live there, who work the land, and who worship together in community on the Sabbath. These communities hold a rich heritage of faith and devotion that is an American story. The author's desire is to tell it with a Quaker simplicity and prayerful sincerity that honors his own family's legacy. The poetry draws from a rich literary, artistic, and liturgical language, which reveals people of faith, and an intimate connection with the land that flourishes still, caring for and cultivating the American plains and prairies to help feed a 21st century world.

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A PILGRIMAGE OF CHURCHES will take the Reader on a powerful and transformative journey far into the heart of old and devotional America: to where the inspired and believing once established their vision of a true Jerusalem and of their Christ upon the coastal plains of Texas and up northward onto the plains of Kansas. This book is a gentle masterpiece of perception and human record, bringing back to life a world that has vanished from our Twenty-First Century culture. Like an ancient, illuminated manuscript this book will deliver lightness and conviction into your hands and eyes. Starbuck is a master of poetic tradition and diction, and his delivery of these prophetic songs - which vividly and precisely depict a forsaken time - returns us to those sacred grounds. About the author himself we can most certainly say that his aim is true. -Kevin McGrath, Harvard University We all know the people of the Midwest have raised corn and crops forever, but they also raised churches, churches of many denominations, Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, AME, Baptist, Lutheran. On his midwestern and western pilgrimage, Ron Starbuck found both images and words that capture the holiness in both sacred and secular places in the middle of America. In this collection, it almost feels as if Ron Starbuck has caught time sleeping as he delivers up images that seem pulled not just from the center of the country, but from the middle of the last century. Time is stopped here and frozen, in the silvery light of these photographs. Ron Starbuck's poems, which invoke Biblical passages, cohere with these mesmerizing images to pour out a radiance, A great reverence for these far-flung and spiritual places. Whether he is photographing tiny chapels and small-town clapboard churches or parking lots of John Deere tractors or plowed fields and pastures, these black-and-white images and liturgical-sounding poems evoke the same stark America as the WPA teams. Ron Starbuck is Walker Evans and James Agee rolled into one here, a new documentarian for a forgotten era of divine places. -Elizabeth Cohen The Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Love and Courage

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RON STARBUCK is the Publisher/CEO/Editor of Saint Julian Press, a poet/writer and photographer, an Episcopalian, and author of There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian, When Angels Are Born, Wheels Turning Inward, and now A Pilgrimage of Churches, four rich collections of poetry following a poet's mythic and spiritual journey that aligns easily with the paths of many contemplative traditions.Ron has been deeply engaged in an Interfaith-Buddhist-Christian dialogue for many years, and holds a lifelong interest in literature, poetry, Christian mysticism, comparative literature and religion, theology, and various forms of contemplative practice.He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has had poems and essays published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, an interview and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, ONE from MillerWords (Feb. 2016), and Pirene's Fountain, Volume 7 Issue 15, from Glass Lyre Press (Oct. 2014), Levure Littéraire (France - 2017 & 2018), La Piccioletta Barca (Nov. 2019), and The Tulane Review (Fall 2019). - Print-On-Demand lower price edition with monotone B&W matte finish images, instead of higher resolution glossy images.

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